Alpine Eagle Flying Tourbillon

With Alpine Eagle, Chopard has created a contemporary sports collection featuring a pure design and sophisticated mechanics. Benefitting from Chopard Manufacture’s watchmaking expertise and innovative developments, the Alpine Eagle collection encompasses a flyback chronograph movement, a high-frequency calibre and – since 2022 – a flying tourbillon movement. At just 3.30 mm thick, the L.U.C 96.24-L movement now powers this new Alpine Eagle Flying Tourbillon model. Chopard is the only Manufacture whose flying tourbillon watches bear double Chronometer and Poinçon de Genève certification. Featuring a case measuring 41 mm in diameter and an integrated bracelet, this timepiece is crafted entirely in the Maison's workshops from Lucent SteelTM, Chopard’s exclusive, ultra-resistant steel made with a recycling rate of at least 80%. A 6 o’clock opening on its textured “Rhône Blue” dial reveals a transparent and light tourbillon mechanism that endows the entire creation with its elegantly sophisticated character.

Inspired by a historical Chopard model reinterpreted by three generations of the Scheufele family, the Alpine Eagle collection has been constantly enriched since its launch with new innovations and one of the latest is a flying tourbillon movement developed thanks to the watchmaking expertise of Chopard Manufacture. This unprecedented Alpine Eagle Flying Tourbillon, acknowledged by the prestigious Poinçon de Genève quality hallmark, is the second in the collection to benefit from the technical prowess of L.U.C Calibre 96.24-L.

An innovative, certified tourbillon

A flying tourbillon is characterised by the absence of an upper bridge. Since the tourbillon carriage is held only by the lower bridge, it appears to fly, creating an effect of transparency throughout the movement. L.U.C 96.24-L is based on the development of Chopard Manufacture's first calibre (L.U.C 96.01-L presented in 1997) and is similarly slim, at only 3.30 mm.

This ultra-thin movement makes it possible to optimise the size of the Alpine Eagle Flying Tourbillon watch: the case measures just 8 mm thick, while the flanks and bezel are slimmer than a classic Alpine Eagle 41 model, offering a wider dial aperture. These well-balanced proportions, a signature feature of the collection, endow the timepiece with an elegant and graceful appearance entirely suited to the lightness of the complication.

The L.U.C 96.24-L movement is equipped with a stop-seconds function enabling precise time setting. This precision is certified by the Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute, evidenced by the "Chronometer" inscription on the dial below the logo.

Among the flying tourbillon watches on the market, those by Chopard are the only ones to receive both Chronometer certification and the prestigious Poinçon de Genève quality hallmark. The latter guarantees the fine craftsmanship and smooth operation of the timepieces assembled within the Canton. Stamped on the case-back of the watch, it depicts the city of Geneva’s coat-of-arms composed of a golden key and above all an eagle: a symbol reminiscent of the original inspiration behind the Alpine Eagle collection.

Thanks to its two stacked barrels based on Chopard Twin technology, the movement guarantees a 65-hour power reserve, and its automatic winding is driven by a 22-carat gold micro-rotor whose density contributes to the slenderness of the movement. Finely crafted by the artisans of the Maison, each of its components is adorned with a Côtes de Genève motif recalling the attention to detail cultivated by Chopard Manufacture.

Sophisticated aesthetics

With its pure and assertive design, the Alpine Eagle collection reflects Chopard’s creative richness and visionary spirit as well as drawing inspiration from the power of Nature. The Alpine Eagle Flying Tourbillon model is faithful to this aesthetic: a round case with stylised sides, a crown engraved with the compass rose, a bezel with eight functional screws set at a tangent, a stamped dial featuring deep colours, luminescent indications, and finally a metal bracelet that is particularly comfortable on the wrist.

The Alpine Eagle Flying Tourbillon is made from Lucent SteelTM, an innovative steel developed by Chopard for its anti-allergenic properties, its robustness and its incomparable brilliance, made with a recycling rate of at least 80%. Since 2023, Chopard uses Lucent SteelTM in the production of all its steel models, for both cases and bracelets.

An eagle-eyed dial

Inspired by the palette of natural colours composing the Alpine landscape, the "Rhône Blue" shade of this dial evokes one of the Alps’ most famous rivers, the Rhône, which originates at the heart of the eponymous glacier in the canton of Valais. It is here – at an altitude of over 2,200 metres – that the river begins, amid gentle blue hues synonymous with purity, feeding the waters of Lake Geneva and ending its course in the Mediterranean Sea.

This dial is finely textured on a solid gold base according to a pattern inspired by the eagle's iris. Centred on the tourbillon at 6 o'clock, this radiant design highlights the mechanism by emphasising its perfect transparency. The collection’s aesthetic codes are also picked up on the arms of the tourbillon carriage, specially redesigned in the same shape as the gold hands on the dial, while the tourbillon carriage bears the small seconds hand, which has been meticulously coated with SLN X1 by the artisans of the Manufacture.

Chopard’s entire production process is vertically integrated, thus enabling it to make and assemble all the components of its Alpine Eagle collection in-house, from movement through to case and bracelet.